Joy Behar tells The View she’s happy Trump went after former FBI director James
Joy Behar shocked The View‘s panelists as she said she agreed with President Donald Trump‘s targeting of former FBI Director James Comey because he’d previously targeted Hillary Clinton.
‘You know, I don’t like Comey. I agree with Trump on this one… I don’t like what he did to Hillary,’ Behar said on Thursday.
Behar was referencing Comey’s release of a letter on Clinton‘s use of a personal email server as Secretary of State right before the 2016 presidential elections. The scandal helped swing that year’s presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor.
‘At the last minute to bring out this baloney, email baloney thing?’ Behar added.
When Sara Haines asked her if that meant Comey should be prosecuted, Behar replied, ‘No, no. I’m just saying. But I rarely have something I agree with Trump on. So, this is one thing.’
Comey was charged Thursday with lying to Congress in a criminal case filed days after President Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI director and other perceived political enemies.
The indictment makes Comey the first former senior government official involved in one of Trump’s chief grievances, the long-concluded investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, to face prosecution.
Trump has for years derided that investigation as a ‘hoax’ and a ‘witch hunt’ despite multiple government reviews showing Moscow interfered on behalf of the Republican’s campaign, and has made clear his desire for retribution.
Joy Behar, pictured on The View on Thursday, surprised her co-panelists by saying she was pleased President Trump was pursuing former FBI Director James Comey through the courts
Behar was referencing Comey’s release of a letter on Hillary Clinton ‘s use of a personal email server as Secretary of State right before the 2016 presidential elections, which many Democrats consider to have tilted the electoral balance in Trump’s favor
Comey was charged Thursday with lying to Congress in a criminal case. He is seen speaking to Congress in 2016
The criminal case is likely to deepen concerns that the Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi is being weaponized in pursuit of investigations and now prosecutions of public figures the president regards as his political enemies.
It was filed as the White House has taken steps to exert influence in unprecedented ways on the department, blurring the line between law and politics at an agency where independence in prosecutorial decision-making is a foundational principle.
Trump on Thursday hailed the indictment as ‘JUSTICE FOR AMERICA!’
Bondi, a Trump loyalist, and FBI Director Kash Patel, a longtime vocal critic of the Russia investigation, issued similar statements.
‘No one is above the law,’ Bondi said.
Comey, in a video he posted after his indictment, said: ‘My heart is broken for the Department of Justice but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial.’
He was fired months into Trump’s first administration and since then has remained a top target for Trump supporters seeking retaliation related to the Russia investigation.
Comey was singled out by name in a Saturday social media post in which Trump appeared to appeal directly to Bondi bring charges against Comey and complained that Justice Department investigations into his foes had not resulted in criminal cases.
‘We can’t delay any longer, it’s killing our reputation and credibility,’ Trump wrote, referencing the fact that he himself had been indicted and impeached multiple times. ‘JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!’
Trump celebrated the indictment on Truth Social by calling Comey ‘one of the worst human beings in this Country’
Prosecutor Lindsey Halligan (pictured), 36, a former beauty queen, is rapidly emerging as a presidential favorite and will now have the task of investigating the former FBI Director, who remains one of the people her boss loathes most in the world
Former FBI Director James Comey is reportedly set to turn himself in on Friday morning. He is seen in 2017 before speaking to the Senate Intelligence Committee
Trump also called Comey ‘one of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to’ after the FBI chief was indicted on charges of making false statements and obstruction of justice.
‘Comey placed a cloud over the entire nation, and actually, the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax made it very difficult,’ Trump he told Fox News.
The president then added: ‘It could have caused wars.’
The office that filed the case against Comey, the Eastern District of Virginia, was thrown into turmoil last Friday following the resignation of chief prosecutor Erik Siebert, who had not charged Comey and had faced pressure to bring charges against another Trump target, New York Attorney General Letitia James, in a mortgage fraud investigation.
The following evening, Trump lamented in a Truth Social post aimed at the attorney general that department investigations had not resulted in prosecutions. He nominated as the new U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, a White House aide who had been one of Trump’s personal lawyers but has not previously served as a federal prosecutor.